- Industria: Financial services
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UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Also: risk appetite, willingness to accept risk. A person's individual attitude towards risk. They may, for example, be willing to accept risks or they can be risk-averse.
Industry:Banking
Restructuring and shifting within a portfolio, with the weightings of positions in certain securities being reduced and that of others being increased.
Industry:Banking
Total income earned by the population of a country or region in a year. The national income is calculated on the basis of the income earned by the nationals of the country or region in question both at home and abroad. See also per capita income.
Industry:Banking
Also: depreciation. Reduction of the external value of a currency. In a system of fixed exchange rates or bloc currencies, devaluation is effected by the legal or official lowering of the exchange rate (or parity) of a currency in terms of the other currencies (formerly against gold). In the case of flexible or floating exchange rates, depreciation is the result of a decline in the exchange rate on the currency market in synch with supply and demand. Opposite: revaluation.
Industry:Banking
Also: market decline. General decline in prices, especially in the stock markets. Opposite: bull market.
Industry:Banking
Normal pricing situation in the market for commodities futures where the spot price is lower than the forward price. Opposite: backwardation.
Industry:Banking
Also: underwriting consortium. Temporary association (consortium) of two or more investment banks for the joint underwriting of a securities issue.
Industry:Banking
A statement detailing and balancing the expense items and income items of a company for the past financial year.
Industry:Banking
